HMS Magpie

Eight ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS "Magpie", after the bird, the magpie:

*HMS|Magpie|1806|6 was a 4-gun schooner launched in 1806 and captured by the French in 1807.
*HMS|Magpie|1826|6 was a 5-gun schooner launched in 1826 and wrecked off Cuba two months later.
*HMS|Magpie|1830|6 was a 4-gun cutter launched in 1830, used for dockyard service after 1845, being renamed "YC6". She was in service until at least 1880, and was possibly sold in 1908.
*HMS|Magpie|1855|6 was a "Dapper" class screw gunboat launched in 1855 and wrecked in 1864.
*HMS|Magpie|1868|6 was a screw gunvessel launched in 1868, used as a survey vessel after 1878, and sold in 1885.
*HMS|Magpie|1889|6 was a screw gunboat launched in 1889. She was used as a boom defence vessel from 1902, reverting to a gunboat in 1915, before being transferred for use as a depot ship later that year. She was sold in 1921.
*HMS|Magpie|U82|6 was a Modified "Black Swan" class sloop launched in 1943 and broken up after 1959.
*HMS|Magpie|1982|6 was the trawler "Hondo" purchased in 1982 and used until 1996 for target practice.